CHOI-FM - Main Hosts of The Station

Main Hosts of The Station

Jeff Fillion was the most popular host at the station. He was the morning man, hosting with his staff Le monde parallèle de Jeff (Jeff's Parallel World) every weekday morning. Over the years, his ideas and opinions made him the city's most controversial radio host. He teamed up for a time with longtime morning man André Arthur. Fillion was sued numerous times by many well-known people around the province because of his controversial comments. The station's problems with the CRTC are mostly attributed to him and his comments.

In the past, he was well known for his show's contests. For example, he created a contest in the late 1990s where a woman would win a breast implants surgery on Good Friday - "Good Friday" being "Vendredi saint" in French, and the words "saint" and "sein" (breast) have the same pronunciation.

On the air, on the morning of March 17, 2005, Fillion announced that he was immediately resigning as host of the morning show. In May 2005, the former host started giving interviews to various Quebec media where he complained about what he says is a lack of respect towards him by the station's owners. He says that they have not offered him any severance pay since he left the air. The owners replied that they have offered him various jobs inside their company but he has refused all of them. The station also claimed that Fillion's demands for almost $2 million in severance pay were unreasonable. He is apparently also asking to be cleared of all responsibility in current or future lawsuits against him or the station. This would bring the total to 5 million dollars.

Gilles Parent was hired by the station in 2001. He came from CHIK-FM 98.9 MHz, CHOI's rival station, to host the Le retour de Gilles Parent every weekday afternoon. His thoughts and opinions are less controversial and are expressed in a much more respectful manner than Fillion's.

Marto Napoli is the host of the DRX 2.0 (short for "Décompte Radio X 2.0") which airs every weeknight from 6 to 9. He is known for making fun of people on the phone and mocking random things and people. His show is very popular among teenagers.

In July 2004, after CHOI's issues with the CRTC started to put the station in danger, he decided to create the "DRX Army", in reference to the Kiss Army. The DRX Army Soldiers were defending CHOI with pacific acts and with a huge "Visibility Operation", which caused the whole area of Quebec and its surroundings to be marked with "DRX Army" and "Liberté!" logos on farm doors and flags proudly being shown.

He pretends that Marto Napoli is his real name and that he is of Italian descent, but it is all part of his show. His real name is Martin Castonguay and he is the first son of Édouard Castonguay, a country and western singer. He also organizes a tour, called the Marto Napoli tour, in bars around the province of Quebec, where he starts huge parties with wet t-shirts contests and pet-o-boys contests. With the money he gains from these parties, he helps the Marto et ses ti-pauvres (Marto and his little poor people) Foundation, which is his way of calling the Saint-Vincent de Paul de Québec Foundation that helps fight child poverty around the Quebec City area.

Since August 2004, he also helps the Fondation Québécoise de la Fibrose Kystique, which is when Godasse ("Old Shoe", in French slang, slightly "modified" though), a teenager who suffers from cystic fibrosis, joined the DRX and started presenting "La chronique à Godasse" every Friday during the show.

Denis Gravel (known as The fucking news guy, name given by Korn's former guitar player) hosted Le Char de hits until 2004, when it became the most popular radio program of the area at lunch time. He also did the news segments during Jeff Fillion's morning show. When Jeff Fillion resigned, Denis replaced him as the host of the morning show. On March 16, 2004, he became well known in the province for inadvertently revealing the name of one of the victims of a highly publicized child prostitution case during Gilles Parent's afternoon show, while performing a live commentary after a day in court, where popular radioman Robert Gillet of competitor station CJMF (93.3 FM) had stood in the accused box.